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Columbus - Exploring Fact and Historical Distortion

the understanding of students, but reinforces the social privileges of the same social classes and national groups who have enjoye...

Facing East from Indian Country

history of the United States but are all too often not the focus of American history. While other authors seem to circumvent the r...

Jonathan Swift/Gulliver's Voyage to Lilliput

is ale to jump "the highest," succeeding to high office (Swift). As this suggests, Swift was lampooning the machinations require...

Analytical Reflections of A Preface to History Teaching Text by Carl Gustavson

In twelve pages Gustavson's book on the 'misteaching' of history is analyzed. There are no additional sources listed....

Mass Media Aspects

According to what I know, perhaps the most original video programming concepts were in the area of self-improvement: rumba lessons...

Howard Zinn and the Civil Rights Movement

This research report looks at this era but focuses on one book called A People's History of the United States. This five page pape...

Edmond Killina's Courthouse over White House Chicago and the 1960 Presidential Election

In eleven pages the controversial results of the 1960 presidential election are examined within the context of this book and provi...

Review of An Article on a Text on “The Yellow Wallpaper”

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

Book Report on Milton William Cooper’s Behold a Pale Horse

(2003) charges that its contents consist of what amounts to "stigmatized knowledge," in which supposed truths are verified to be f...

Topographical Approaches to Architectural History

"quiet zone of large mansions and parks."iv While a large tract of land was needed for the building of the cathedral, this locatio...

Issue of Mortality in Literature and in Life

is common knowledge. Who does not worry about death? Even children, from a very young age, often ask the ultimate question which i...

Cultural Values in History

the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....

Review of The Arts of China by Michael Sullivan

In four pages this book that chronicles the development and history of Chinese art from the ancient period to the 20th century is ...

Maxine Hong Kingston/Warrior Woman

property rather than fellow human beings. Tourist information on St. Thomas indicates that St. Thomas Market Square is today a "...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

Lanza/Elevator Music

or artistic merit that might be associated with his music genre. He argues that decades of rock music that sound more like car cra...

2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...

King Philip II of Spain

the Spanish Inquisition were used to eliminate resistance to Philips policy of centralizing power under an absolute monarchy" (Phi...

The History of Mathematics

1988). Another method is called the Ionic system where letters of the alphabet were used as digits (Jones & Bedient, 1988). With t...

Betty Freidan's The Feminine Mystique

This paper provides a reading of Betty Freidan's book, The Feminine Mystique. The author points out how the role of the woman has...

The Biblical Ruth

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

Puerto Rico as Fernando Pico Knows It

2009). This book is an expanded version of Picos earlier Historia general and is distinguished by Picos use of primary sources and...

Travels of Marco Polo

In 5 pages this paper argues that this travel book is actually an important history text. There is 1 source cited in the bibliogr...

Identity and Politics in An African-Nicaraguan Community

A 6 page review of the book by Edmund Gordon. The focus is on the downfall of the Sandinista regime. A brief history of Nicaragu...

The History of Canadian ECE

the ideas to learning, and finally B.F. Skinner who really made an impact. Skinner argued that development is affected by external...

Would Black Reparations be Redistributive Justice?

our current system of redistributive taxation follows a set pattern that is characterized by an inherent inequality between those ...

Mahler and the Burning Bronx

hes a scrappy second baseman just traded to the Yankees from the Oakland Oaks. He asks the managers incessant questions and yells ...

The Erie Canal

its aftermath had its share of problems. One difficulty was the flooding that would sometimes occur (Bernstein, 2005). This was mo...

Churchill/The Gathering Storm

describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...

Perspective on History

out, "different perspectives of what happened create different histories" (Wilson 1). The example of the voyages of Christopher C...